"공간가설"에 대하여 = Some Considerations on the Localistic Hypothesis

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This paper discusses, from a critical point of view, the ``localistic hypothesis`` which constitutes one of the primary pillars of cognitive linguistics, The localistic hypothesis grants a linguistic and cognitive primordiality to spatial expressions. But a pure spatial ``localism cannot be maintained. Despite an irrefutable evidence that numerous originally spatial expressions are used for non-spatial semantic domains, e.g. time and ``notion``. this paper concludes that it is imprudent to affirm that our mental world is primarily based on a spatial model. Through an analysis of Korean. French and English paraphrastic sentences. some doubts are also expressed on the spatial character of certain ``image schemas`` which are regarded as the foundation of ``conceptual metaphor``